So, You Want to be an Imagineer - Season 19 Hype Thread

JokersWild

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This is for the E-Ticket. The land itself is a mix of greek mythology related IP, just like Green Hill Zone is a mix of different platformer IPs and Silent Hill is a mix of different horror themed games. Here's a brief rundown of what I was thinking for God of War barring in mind I know nothing about the series itself so this is basically an interpretation.

You start out sort of like Reign of Kong with a scenic roundabout over the Mt. Olympus showbuilding then quickly drop into the fishing village. This scene is basically the first part of Journey to Atlantis meets the Blue Bayou. Calm, serene, draws us into a false sense of security. You see an AA of an old man Kraken with a long beard in roughly the same set-up as the old man in Pirates, thinking about his glory days of battle. You then enter a docked ship and transition into the flooded ship sequence which is basically a more souped up version of the flooding in Pirates Shanghai. The boats rise to the dock of the ship and we get a HUGE show scene of a vast ocean and a giant two-headed Hydra AA, with Kratos intensely starring it down on the hull of the ship. Super advanced wave machines create real giant waves along with an imax screen, dramatic lighting, and some rockwork on the sides of the room. The reveal is meant to be a huge "WOW" moment.

The boat gets flooded and you transition deep down into Atlantis in much the same way the underwater transition happens on Shanghai Pirates. Atlantis is sort of visually like the Gungan city in Phantom Menace with a lot of emphasis on glowing lighting and a dome placed around it. While we see Kratos and Posiden battling it out on top of a collapsed statue, we also see a "swimming" giant kraken AA suspended between the dome and the roof of the show room.

Caves transition into the River Styx segment which is pretty much a more depressing take on Dead Man's Grotto with "lost souls" instead of skeletons. The Hades thrown room scene has an effect where five or six different Hades AAs disappear and reappear throughout the room through elaborate Pepper's Ghost set-ups. Cerberus is pretty self explanatory.

The fight with Ares and the rock titan is on a forced perspective cliffside of Mt. Olympus. The Ares and Kratos AAs are super advanced with realistic fight choreography. The rock titan is another huge set piece AA with limited movement much like the Hydra, Kraken, and Cerberus. The scene also starts off with a stunt-tronic of Kratos leaping into action, so it's definitely a lot of really high tech AA work saved for last. Overall the general flow of the attraction is Kratos reflecting on the battles he's fought against the other gods. I'm playing SUPER hard and loose with the actual storylines of the games and instead relying on the general formula of Kratos battling a human-sized god in each scene while a giant monster dominates landscape. I'm aiming for REALLY big scale for this. For example the opening fishing village would roughly be about the size of the entire POTC town in scale (from the well to the burning scene).
I know you're playing pretty fast and loose with the story of the games, but yeah...this is pretty off from the games' story haha.

I like the focus on large set pieces, but honestly I don't think you're going far enough. Until God of War 3, the games were less about fighting the actual gods and more about fighting monsters and weird facsimiles of Ancient Greek things, like the Colossus of Rhodes coming to life and Kratos having to climb it and fight it, or fighting Gaia herself. Maybe instead of a gauntlet of gods Zeus could be the main villain that's pulling the strings and sending monsters down to kill Kratos?

In terms of the story, it might be better to not portray Kratos as a proper hero. The main thesis of the games is destruction and the story is very much played in a way that neither side is right or good. Maybe a better angle to take rather than the framing device being Old Man Kratos reflecting on days past would be to put guests in the shoes of Ancient Greek citizens trying to flee the islands as Kratos continues his assault on the Gods who cheated him.

This is definitely a cool idea. I'm still not sure how I feel about God of War being a water ride, but I think that your Atlantis set up helps make it work better.
 

TwilightZone

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TwilightZone

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I tested out a new video format to have some easy content for while I am on vacation in July. A Let's Ride. It's sorta like a Let's Play, but for ride through videos. (Basically just a reaction video, but it works for something simple, fun, and easy when I don't have time to work on something with more substance)

When it comes to temporary rides I'm a lot less uh what's the right word. Optimistic? I will go with that for now. A lot of temporary attractions end up lasting way longer then they were supposed to and imo they should've just kept the studio tour or at least a scaled back version of it. The cars attraction just doesn't seem like it would be fun even to a very little kid.

But I love the idea of a let's ride. Very unique!
 

HomeImagineer

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2 new lands for the price of one:
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I hoping if SWW puts Frontierland with Western River Expedition & Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the next post, fingers crossed if not i don't mind.
 

MickeyWaffleCo.

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In the Parks
No
2 new lands for the price of one:
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Interesting that he put Tomorrowland on the left side of the park. I would think that would be a bit more of a thematic clash with less transition than Tomorrowland usually has with neighboring lands.
 

Outbound

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2 new lands for the price of one:
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OK WAS NOT EXPECTING TOMORROWLAND THERE

I have no idea what he'll do with the entire right side of the park. There's so much space! Omega Frontierland? Hollywoodland? Shadowland? Something we've never seen before?
 

Pi on my Cake

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In the Parks
Yes
When it comes to temporary rides I'm a lot less uh what's the right word. Optimistic? I will go with that for now. A lot of temporary attractions end up lasting way longer then they were supposed to and imo they should've just kept the studio tour or at least a scaled back version of it. The cars attraction just doesn't seem like it would be fun even to a very little kid.

But I love the idea of a let's ride. Very unique!
I'm more forgiving just because the alternative is a third of a decades old ride or it being abandoned for a few years. I get less forgiving if they last beyond 5-10 years lol

That being said, I think I personally would be more into a super scaled back studio tour rather than Cars too. But I also am super into Studio themed stuff haha

Glad you liked the Let's Ride!
 

MickeyWaffleCo.

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In the Parks
No
So I just had a totally random idea, but now I’m hooked on it.

Disney should totally do a movie based on The Princess and the Pea. Specifically, it’d be great to see another hand-drawn (or at least 2D animated in general) Disney animated film. I believe the last one was The Princess and the Frog, back in 2009.

Disneyfying a Hans Christian Anderson story has a precedent already with Frozen, and I’d love to see another more “traditional” Disney Princess film paying homage to Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc.
 

Pi on my Cake

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In the Parks
Yes
So I just had a totally random idea, but now I’m hooked on it.

Disney should totally do a movie based on The Princess and the Pea. Specifically, it’d be great to see another hand-drawn (or at least 2D animated in general) Disney animated film. I believe the last one was The Princess and the Frog, back in 2009.

Disneyfying a Hans Christian Anderson story has a precedent already with Frozen, and I’d love to see another more “traditional” Disney Princess film paying homage to Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc.
I remember years ago thinking of a Tangled sequel based on the Princess and the Pea. The story was focused on someone trying to stage a coup in corona since they think the king and queen are throwing the kingdom away by handing the royalty to a famous thief's girlfriend who could just be conning them. Flynn has already stolen the crown once, why should the people of Corona trust this mysterious woman he shows up with claiming to be the rightful heir to the thrown?

So, Rapunzel has to go through a series of tests (like from Princess and the Pea) to prove she really is royalty and win over the people of the kingdom while Flynn has to help combat an underground rebellion being organized by a nefarious opportunist/former con man buddy.

Of course, this was before the series covered this same era and some of the same themes, so it wouldn't work anymore
 

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